3-D THEATRICALS - Los Angeles

Everything that matters, this show gets right. 

First and foremost, what it gets right is the human drama, which may sound odd in this context.   

Yet even a giddy fantasy needs reality behind it, and here’s where Souza’s casting and direction come up roses.   

The respective Robert Hoyt and Cameron Bond are a perfect matched pair; sincere men wracked by longing – torn between dreams of baseball stardom and the embraces of the ‘old girl’ they are (or rather, he is) missing. 

And in Cynthia Ferrer he has a love object emphatically worth the missing.  It’s rare for Meg to impress as a key ingredient of this book but Ferrer pulls it off:  warm, vulnerable, and believable from first to last.   

For the first Damn Yankees within my memory, I actually looked forward to the ballad-driven scenes in the Boyd home.   

And Alexis Carra as supernatural temptress Lola keeps a firm handle on wistful regret.  Whatever Lola wants, it turns out, is human connection; Carra makes us feel it.   
Bob Verini, ArtsinLA.com